Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey concerning plans to encourage international cooperation between geneticists

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Oct 1959-Nov 1959
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UGC 198/3/3/17
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey concerning plans to encourage international cooperation between geneticists. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Humphrey was Chairman of the US Senate Subcommittee who was involved in an International Health Study. One of the interests of this Subcommittee was to develop international cooperation between geneticists and Humphrey was keen to get Pontecorvo's opinion on this. In his response Pontecorvo outlines his views on why the field of human genetics was so underdeveloped and why more research professorships should be set up to allow experimental geneticists "to develop this field".

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Oct 1959-Nov 1959

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3 letters (5 pages)

Biographical note

Humphrey served under President Lyndon B Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965-1969. He twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and also served as Democratic Majority Whip. Prior to this he was Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945 to 1949.

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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